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The Origin of Paper Gunpowder Alcohol and the Compass

The author compares the importance of these inventions alongside many other technological inventions that trace their roots to anc...

Articles of Confederation, Origins of the Constitution

the Articles were abandoned. One of the most divisive controversies facing the Constitutional Convention was how to settle the t...

Origins of World War I and America's Role

a prevalent factor in igniting the Great War, as it was Serbias resentment and frustration at the continued rule of Austria-Hungar...

The Events and Processes that Led to the Development of Contemporary Archaeology

Contemporary archaeology has been shaped by numerous factors. At one time archaeology was a largely...

Judaism, Christianity and Islam

(Robinson, 2011). These are all elements within each religion. At the same time the textual elements are often interpreted by va...

Origins and Implications of the Cold War Era

War; shortly thereafter, representatives of the Allied powers met in Europe for the Potsdam Conference, where territories were div...

The French Influence in Quebec City

First established as a fort in 1535 by the French explorer Jacques Cartier, Quebec City is among the oldest European settlements i...

What is Eurocurrency?

a deposit of the funds with a US bank. This meant it would not be possible for the US money to be frozen or confiscated as it no l...

Evolution of I/0

work and behavior. There are a number of seminal studies that helped industrial psychology become its own division. For instance,...

World Trade Organization

Geneva. The World Trade Organization would not be able to function without the Secretariat which employs more than 600 people incl...

Origins of Mental Illnesses

Treatment included drilling holes in peoples heads to release the evil spirits (Stoker, 2010). Other treatments included exorcism,...

Magnet Schools

have a focus. How these schools are actually structured and implemented differs from district to district and from state to state ...

Teaching Origins of Life

and violates the separation of religion versus state provisions in the constitution. Intelligent design, however, is not based on...

Gender Identity and its Origins

a matter of "nature" or "nurture". At the core of most modern debates on gender identity is the question or whether gender is dete...

Overview of Community Police Academies

strategies (2000). By and large, this has been a grass roots effort. However, not too long ago, the President committed approxima...

NJ Railroads' and How They Originated

did have ties to the railroad industry ("NJ Governors," 2003). South Orange is another example of a long-established suburb whos...

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

the world, based on his observations and research. He states, "I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those...

Ancient History of Mali

Mali trade centered not only around agricultural products, however, but also included ivory, and gold (Library of Congress Country...

Theories on Motivation and Management

variation in task complexity and the relationships between workers and managers in each. An example of a high task - low relation...

Rastafarianism, Santeria, and Islam

islands as slaves (Crawford, 2001). It was created from necessity for the slaves to continue practicing their native religion with...

Book of Job Exegesis

twenty-five hundred years. Many scholars date the time and place of the recording of Job to the age of the Babylonian Exile, which...

Sir Tom Farmer and UK's Kwik Fit Company

to succeed. Finally, most entrepreneurs are more interested in the start-up and early cycles of a business. Once a business beco...

Overview of the Roman Games

violent spectacles that the Romans loved (Roman Fun and Games, 2003). Gladiators were slaves and were made to fight one another, ...

Prewar Nazi Germany and the Origins of Anti Semitism

much of Germany for centuries. In the span of time following the Protestant Reformation Jews had begun to make numerous inr...

Poland's Nationalist Movement Origins and Its Character

organism. * Dmowskis was a distinctively anti-romantic nationalism. He thought the ideals of Polish romantic nationalism--the bro...

David Hume and How Morality Originated

deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' by Homer Compared

could live. It was on the broad shoulders of this classical hero upon which the security of society rested. While the hero walke...

Character of Jo in Charles Dickens' Bleak House

after several of the detectives he knew from the local department. Dickens routinely, then, chooses those who are the most...

Brazil's Landless Workers Movement Overview

rural poverty to urban poverty (Plummer and Ranum, 2002). Between 25 and 50 percent of every citys population live in shantytowns ...

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

writers could persuade the majority of the population to support the Revolution. While critics believe that many historians treat ...